Wasn’t that part of moving big movie releases to before or after the World Cup? Like why we’re going to get Ant-Man 2 a month after the US?

It probably is. As I have a good pal that runs a small cinema chain as much as it pisses off non sporting fans (and he has no interest at all, he’s a very gay chair of the UK Abba fan club) it is the right call. If there’s a big game with your home team nobody is going to the pictures.

Sometimes it benefits European cinemas in getting stuff early, in the Ant-Man case late.

It seems like the Ant-Man case is even more complex than that as it also involves Incredibles 2 being released late in the UK to coincide with the school holidays, and Disney moving Ant-Man far enough away from that that they won’t cannibalise the same audience.

Kind of insane that everyone set US$2 billion as this crazy best-case-scenario unreachable target for Infinity War , and it’s actually going to make it.

I’ll have my non prize now.

I’d like to thank my, mother, my father, Baloo, and Primark for stocking so much Marvel clothing that I feel almost like a king walking amongst the peasants who don’t even know who Beta Ray Bill is. This is for you, Bill.

Kind of insane that everyone set US$2 billion as this crazy best-case-scenario unreachable target for Infinity War , and it’s actually going to make it.

I’ll have my non prize now.

I’d like to thank my, mother, my father, Baloo, and Primark for stocking so much Marvel clothing that I feel almost like a king walking amongst the peasants who don’t even know who Beta Ray Bill is. This is for you, Bill.

Aaaand of course now it’ll only do 1 999 999 999.99

No but yeah, I thought it’d do less than 2 'cause of the bummer ending… but before watching it and knowing about the ending I didn’t think 2B was unreachable. It’d be fun if IW kicks SW to #4 =P

I think it’s fair to say that given this one’s result, the next one will break 2 as well. It might even dethrone Titanic…

The midnight release party thing probably owed a lot to the famous camping-out-for-The Phantom Menace thing that happened. I’m sure people had done that before, but the scale of it had shifted. No one camps out for things like that anymore.

“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” is off to a roaring start overseas. Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s adventure film opened with $151.1 million in 48 international markets.…

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opened to $20M in the UK/Ireland, compared to $30M for the last movie. That movie made $100M over here, it’ll be interesting to see how the sequel holds up with pretty much nothing but the World Cup as competition for a month.

My expectation is Fallen Kingdom will significantly under-perform when compared to the first one. I could be wrong, but my feeling is that Jurassic World tapped into the same kind of nostalgia that The Force Awakens did by basically remaking the first movie. I’m not sure the sequel will be offered the same goodwill and that people might be looking for something more from it. Early tracking has it at around $150 million opening weekend domestically, which would actually be a pretty big drop off from Jurassic World.

My expectation is Fallen Kingdom will significantly under-perform when compared to the first one.

It’s an expectation many share, the first film’s massive success was quite a surprise. It would be hard to hit those heights again but either way of course could be a very healthy pay day for the studio.

I think the first Jurassic World film also benefited from being the first Chris Pratt film since LEGO and Guardians, and people were excited for a new one—I think his drawing power at that time was strong, and it’s since dimmed.

My expectation is Fallen Kingdom will significantly under-perform when compared to the first one. I could be wrong, but my feeling is that Jurassic World tapped into the same kind of nostalgia that The Force Awakens did by basically remaking the first movie. I’m not sure the sequel will be offered the same goodwill and that people might be looking for something more from it. Early tracking has it at around $150 million opening weekend domestically, which would actually be a pretty big drop off from Jurassic World.

It honestly feels like the movie must have already made a profit just from product placement and various promotions. I’ve haven’t seen a clip of the movie yet that hasn’t included some sort of advert with it as part of the clip.

The Jurassic World/Park movies don’t need to be particularlygood. People just want to see dinosaurs chasing and eating people.

I think, for the franchise to move forward, they should ditch the amusement park concept entirely and have the dinosaurs take back the world, and it turns into a post-apocalyptic “Dead” survival thing with dinosaurs instead of zombies. Malcolm foreshadowed this in the first movie.

I think, for the franchise to move forward, they should ditch the amusement park concept entirely and have the dinosaurs take back the world, and it turns into a post-apocalyptic “Dead” survival thing with dinosaurs instead of zombies. Malcolm foreshadowed this in the first movie.

Certainly, that was a part of it. However, I don’t think post-apocalyptic would necessarily be the only way to go. It’s one direction, but a world dealing with these dinosaurs and the environmental and social impact they have would be interesting.

I mean, that would be an interesting world setting for a lot of stories.